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At last we have found time to show you some great examples of referral contests that were powered by InviteBox. The hero of the hour is Indiaplaza – India's leading shopping site. They have already carried out two contests and now we are able to share their experience with you.

The first contest offered three hottest iPads of the 3rd generation as giveaways. The rules were simple – you just needed to share the contest with your friends and to bring at least 3 of them to register to that promotion.

In the previous post we discussed the basic guidelines for promoting your referral program to the customers. But no best practice or creative idea stands on its own. Capturing its full potential will most likely take you at least a few rounds of measurement and optimizations.

If you are using InviteBox, you can rely on the two metrics we provide for that: “Widget impressions per pageview” and “Posts per widget impression”.

The former indicates how likely the users are to open the widget after viewing the page that contains it. If the InviteBox button is a part of your referral ...

Referral programs are an inexpensive and scalable way to attract more customers to your business. In the right hands and in combination with the right product a referral program can even become its main engine of growth. But they are by no means a secret sauce that can be simply thrown in and suddenly make your traffic skyrocket. Nothing is, despite what countless marketing gurus tell us via their long copy websites.

Any successful referral program is a result of careful planning, design and iterative tuning. This post is the first in an upcoming series that will cover referral program ...